Sanitary shaving-brush.



No. 784,763. I PATENTEDMAR. 14, 1905. L. SILVERMAN & W. VINCENT.

SANITARY SHAVING BRUSH. APPLIUATION FILED MAY 23. 1904.

WITNESSES, 9% INVENTUR3 (770$ 5 aha 0&7, M 61/11 UNITED, STATES Patented March 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS SILVERMAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, ANDWVILLIAM VINCENT, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

SANITARY SHAVING-B-RUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,763, dated March 14, 1905. Application filed May 23, 1904. Serial No. 209,241.

To all 7.1177107 it may concern.-

Be it known that we, LoUIs SILVERMAN, of the city and county of San Francisco, and VVIL- LIAM VINCENT, of Oakland, Alameda county, State of California, citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Shaving-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in shaving-brushes. Its object is to provide a simple practical sanitary brush which may be taken apart after each period of use, the bristles opened out and thoroughly cleansed and sterilized, and which permits the parts to be again easily assembled.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a view of our brush with the parts assembled ready for use. Fig. 2 is a view of the same, partly in section. Fig. 3 is an end View of sheet shown in Fig. 4. Fig. A shows the brush portion opened out in sheet form.

Our improved brush consists of the bristles A, arranged in a flexible sheet, as shown in Fig. 4, adapted to be rolled into compact brush form, and a temporary binder or holder for the bristles, comprising the interiorly tapered and threaded sleeve or chuck 2 and the follower-handle 3. The bristles, which may be of any desired length, are arranged parallel to each other and stitched or otherwise suitably bound together adjacent to one end, as shown at 4, in the form of a sheet, and each individual bundle of bristles,as a, encompassed by the stitching is treated by some suitable means whereby the bristles of each bundle are further bonded together, as at 5, and prevented from becoming detached, at the same time leaving the operative end of the bristles, which receives the lather, perfectly flexible and open. This bonding of the individual bristles into bun'ch units may be effected by applying to the end of the bristles proximate to the stitching 4 a shellac or rubber or other suitable waterproof cement. The bristle sheet is made of such length that when rolled up solidly it may be passed partly through the chuck 2, with that portion of the bristles adjacent to their bonded ends seating against the inner contracted unthreaded part of the chuck. The threaded handle 3 is then screwed into position and made to press against the inner ends of the bristles, bringing all these ends into approximately the same plane and wedging the bristles firmly in place and holding them fast. \Vhen the parts have thus been assembled, the brush has every appearance of an ordinary shaving-brush. After using the handle may be unscrewed, and the bristles slipped out, separated, washed, and

sterilized and made ready for the next time.

Thus is produced a practical shaving-brush Which may be maintained in perfect sanitary condition no matter how many users of the brush there may be nor with what skin diseases the various users may be afflicted.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shaving-brush comprisinga holder and a flexible sheet of bristles rolled axially into brush form and detachably inserted in said holder, said sheet, when dctached'from the holder and unrolled, allowing the bristles to be opened out and thoroughly cleansed and sterilized.

2. A readily-separable shaving-brush comprising a flexible sheet of bristles rolled into brush form, a sleeve into which one end of the rolled sheet is inserted, said sheet, when detached from the holder and unrolled, made to assume a flat sheet-like form, and means detachably binding the rolled sheet in the sleeve.

3. A readily-separable shaving-brush comprising a holder and brush fiber said fiber consisting of a rolled sheet arranged to be unrolled and spread out into a flat sheet-like form for cleansing purposes.

4. Brush fiber bound into bunch units with the units normally assembled in the form of a flat sheet to permit the fiber to be rolled into brush form and to be spread out flat at pleasure, in combination with a holder into wise upon the rolled sheet to bind it in the which the rolled fiber is detaehably fitted.

A shaving-brush comprising a brush portion formed from a flexible sheet of assembled fibers stitched together adjacent to one end whereby the fibers may be rolled into brush form and then unrolled for cleaning, means for bonding the fibers into bunch units, an interiorly-tln'eaded sleeve for detachably receiving the rolled sheet of fibers, and a handle detachably fitting the sleeve and bearing endsleeve. t

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing wit- 5 nesses. e

Louis SILVERMAN. WILLIAM VINCENT.

Vitnesses:

F. M. BLODGETT, C. T. JOHNS. 

